As another reviewer mentioned, the sound volume is very low,so I just turned it off and treated it as if it were a silent movie. It IS filmed like one. The actors were obviously carefully chosen for their faces, and their zombie stare is dead on (pardon the pun). Lots of closeups. It's almost like watching a Fellini film. Excellent cinematography, good lighting, nice dissolves. I'm looking forward to seeing a high resolution print of this. Bela Lugosi is in the early part of his career here, and White Zombie is one of the films that got him started on the road as an icon of horror films.

I just watched a beautiful print of this on freegreatmovies.com..It's a totally different film, and in some ways I prefer the low rez version here because its more moody. As a photographer, I know that B&W film is far superior to digital capture when it comes to image quality. The tonal range is much wider, the blacks are deeper and the whites are brighter. People's faces look much more realistic w/ film, as digital has too much edge sharpness and leaves out a ton of detail, especially in closeups. Try the high rez version and see what a good B&W film is supposed to look like. It's amazing we can get this sort of image quality from a negative that is only 1"x1 1/2". Since movie cameras run the film vertically instead of horizontally, they were using only the native film width of 1" and projecting it on huge theater screens!

A Zombie film made with the sensibilities of silent films. Too much make-up, stilted overdone acting, as if there were no sound to convey the action taking place. Yet, I found it strangely engrossing - a melodramatic tale of a maniacal love that can never be requited, set in Haiti, with moody jungle and castle sets, loads of Zombies and the inimitable and commanding presence of Bela Lugosi. John Harron (Neil Parker) and Madge Bellamy (Madeleine Parker) as the leads are rather unbelievable at this time - however, their trusting innocence probably played well in 1932. Most of the time Bellamy either smiles sweetly or stares into space; Harron mostly wanders around in an exhausted stupor. Robert Frazer (Charles Beaumont), the bride snatcher whom they trust, is a lonely, morose soul who makes a deal with Lugosi ("Murder" Legendrei) - certain that a month alone with the newlywed bride will enable him to make her love him. And, then, Lugosi has plans of his own. One of the movie's strong points is the moody, atmospheric music which accompanies most of the film - the IMDb credits composers from Wagner, Liszt and Mussorgsky to Xavier Cugat for the music; but, most of it was composed by a number of now forgotten writers including Leon Borch, Guy Bevier, Nathaniel Dett, Hugo Riesenfeld, Nem Herkan, H. Maurice Jacquet, Leo Kempinski and Carl Bohm. Not a great movie, but one might find it worth spending an hour watching it.

Unfortunately the sound is really low, a common problem with these old movies.

Wow this is a bit different, a zombie master and a man who steals a just marriaged woman to turn her into his zombie bride. Great story line which works on a number of levels. Classic baddie sort of looks like dracula.

Moodily shot with a good balance of angles and some of the framing shots and special editing are really good; well considering it was produced 80 years ago they must have been pretty cutting edge. Parts of it are pretty funny too. Almost comic horror.

lovely old peice.

Bela Lugosi, zombies, a woman on the bar room floor! A must see.